Amistad Library - Personal Documents

The Library holds a selection of personal papers # of diaries and private letters # that take up the subject of the Amistad.

Noteworthy documents here include:

The diaries kept by John Quincy

Adams

Several letters written by the Africans to Adams

Entries from a diary kept by a New Yorker, Philip Hone, commenting on the story as it first broke in the metropolis (August 31, 1839), and then again several months later after Ruiz and Montes were arrested (October 22, 1839).